ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a new educational approach that is completely different to those that exist at present, adapted to the developmental stage and based upon the psychological-developmental understanding of the latency stage presented in this book. According to this approach, the school should be designed as a developmental hothouse suited to the age’s needs. This is an environment of an autonomous society of classmates, with its own hierarchy and social norms, enabling the intrapsychic development of the social self during latency. According to this approach, during the years of elementary school, authority should be gradually transferred to the society of children, who should be allowed independent freedom of action in the format of lessons similar to the current breaks. Collaborative learning of the whole class as a group, as one autonomous unit, should be enabled. In this way, where the society of children exists as a unit, children with special needs are allowed to belong and fit in.
